Our virtual MOOC agenda for February 1, 2013


DASSC 2/1/2013Online Courses and MOOCs

Key Questions



  • What digital skills do participants need to learn in open online courses?


  • What are some implications for open, online teaching and learning on professional learning in a large school district?


Skill Building



I can identify three types of MOOCs


I can identify the 21st Century Literacy Skills associated with working in a MOOC


I can respond to and build upon ideas in an online discussion from the MOOC


I can read and respond to distributed online texts


I can reflect upon the tools I’ve seen in action in a MOOC context



Part 1: Understanding MOOCs

Intro to MOOCs 15 minutes

Google MOOC

NBC News story about MOOCs
MOOC Video
What questions do you have about MOOCs? Respond


Clarifying MOOCs 15 minutes

Intro to 3 kinds of MOOCs

3 Kinds of MOOCS
What are your initial impressions of MOOCs? What’s exciting? What’s disconcerting? Respond


Exploring MOOCs 15 minutes

Reading to explore the three types of MOOCs (Permission to focus)

#etmooc blog hub
Thrum Article
DS106
What do you notice about your reading? What did you focus on? Respond



Part 2: Digging into #etmooc- an ongoing connectivist MOOC
Planning Document- This document is the original collaborative plan for this MOOC. Note the invitation to edit freely (What do you notice? Today’s Meet)

Blog Hub- An aggregation of the blogs that participants have tagged and submitted to the course. Note participant-to-participant comments (Respond to blog posts that interest you or share reflections on Today’s Meet)

Diigo Group- Related articles bookmarked by participants (Share article URLs on Today’s Meet)

A MOOC Conversation- A discussion thread that exemplifies the discourse that happens in a networked course (Highlight portions that you would like to respond to and insert comments)



  • What digital skills do participants need to learn in open online courses?


  • What are some implications for open, online teaching and learning on professional learning in a large school district?